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Pittsburgh Blues Fest will pay tribute to Kip London, Mike Lange
The eighth installment of an annual music festival is getting a new name this year: the Kip London Memorial Pittsburgh Blues & Roots Festival. This year’s event, scheduled for July 25-27 at the Pittsburgh Shrine Center Pavilion in Harmar, will pay tribute to London, a Greensburg native who died in...
New Castle-based Pyrotecnico will light up AC/DC’s Pittsburgh show
Pete Cappadocia has played with fire, smoke and other special effects for four decades. Known as “Pyro Pete,” the pyrotechnics expert has spent many nights lighting up the stage for some of the biggest rock ‘n’ roll bands in the world, including AC/DC, which is set to play Acrisure Stadium...
TV Talk: ‘Poker Face’ returns, references infamous Pirates no-hitterVideo
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Peacock streaming series “Poker Face” returns May 8 with the first three episodes of its second season. (After that, one new episode releases weekly on Thursdays through July 10.) In this week’s season premiere, Charlie...
Met Gala pays tribute to Black fashion, designers and includes Rihanna pregnancy surpriseVideo
NEW YORK — A rainy Met Gala on Monday included a Rihanna pregnancy announcement, a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain, Zendaya, Teyana Taylor and many other women in pinstripes and other traditional men’s detailing. Chamberlain and Zuri Hall were among those who wore...
CMU professor Edda Fields-Black wins Pulitzer Prize in history
Carnegie Mellon University Professor Edda L. Fields-Black on Monday won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” Fields-Black is a professor of history and director of The Humanities Center at CMU’s Dietrich College of...
Greensburg native, Juilliard grad will perform senior recital at hometown churchVideo
A piano sounds like a piano. A trumpet sounds like a trumpet. A big old church organ is another matter. A talented organist, using all of the instrument’s stops, levers and pedals, can make it sound like just about anything he or she wants. “I love that the organ can...
Carnegie Mellon University alumni score big with 13 Tony Award nominations
Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards — the highest honors in American theater — have been announced, and five of the nominees are graduates of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. The alumni received a total of 13 nominations between them. The American Theatre Wing’s 78th Tony Awards will be held on...
KT Tunstall, Ashley Cooke lead Allegheny County summer concert series
Allegheny County announced its 2025 summer concert series, with a diverse lineup ranging from country to jazz to the British Invasion to funk. The free concerts, which start May 30, take place at either the South Park Amphitheater or the Hartwood Acres Amphitheater in Hampton. Rising country singer Ashley Cooke...
TV Talk: Natalie Bencivenga explores local neighborhoods in WQED’s ‘Destination’
WQED-TV’s “Destination with Natalie Bencivenga,” created by independent journalist Bencivenga, profiles local immigrant communities and neighborhoods, beginning with Bloomfield. The show’s first 15-minute episode starts streaming May 6 at WQED.org/Destination (or youtube.com/@WQED) and airs on linear Channel 13 at 7:30 p.m. May 12, where it will be paired with another,...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: Gary Pratt
Local country singer Gary Pratt loves to write songs, but he couldn’t pass up “Red Barn,” his latest single which was penned by veteran Nashville writer Jason Patrick Matthews (who has worked with Luke Bryan and Billy Currington). “It reminded me of the red barn on my great grandfather’s farm,”...
‘Thunderbolts’ kicks off the summer movie season with $76 million at the box office
NEW YORK — Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts” opened with $76 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, kicking off the summer box office with a solid No. 1 debut that fell shy of Marvel’s more spectacular launches. All eyes had been on whether “Thunderbolts” — a team-up of...
Melvins’ Buzz Osborne on touring, new album, Ozzy Osbourne’s final show ahead of Pittsburgh concertVideo
Melvins guitarist/singer Buzz Osborne has learned quite a bit about touring in his 40-plus years with the sludge metal pioneers. Before touring, Osborne sits down with a map and a calendar, plotting a route that will, mostly, hit the bigger cities on weekdays and the smaller markets on weekends. “Chicago...
‘Come From Away’ at the Benedum Center is completely cathartic and Canadian
Everyone who can remember Sept. 11, 2001, has a story that they’ve probably recited a thousand times by now. Where they were and what they were doing that Tuesday morning. How they found out what happened. And how it felt. In the opening song of the musical “Come From Away,”...
Singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry talks alternate takes, inspiration ahead of Pittsburgh showVideo
Singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry recently released an alternate version of her song “Flowers,” drawing a parallel to an Edvard Munch display she saw on a trip to an art museum in Norway. “He had all these different versions of his work, like this one was sort of blue-colored, and this...
On ‘Andor,’ minor ‘Star Wars’ villains play major roles
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — In the galaxy of “Andor,” “Star Wars” super villains are relegated to the shadows. The Disney+ series is more interested in what might be called supervisor villains: the bureaucrats, planners, schemers and petty functionaries who make tyranny possible. Instead of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, we...
Jeannette Community Band announces 2025 schedule
The Jeannette Community Band will open its 37th season with a May 25 concert at the American Legion on South Fifth Street. The band is comprised of more than 60 volunteer musicians under the direction of Ron Stemple. Concerts are free and open to the public. They will take place...
Ruth Buzzi, comedy sketch player on groundbreaking series ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 88
LOS ANGELES — Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and made over 200 television appearances during a 45-year career, has died at age 88. Buzzi died Thursday at her home in Texas, says...
Here are 5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: May 2-4
As of this writing, power is still out for a number of people in Allegheny County. If you are one of those unlucky households and you don’t feel like running a marathon this weekend, here are some other things you can do to get out of the house. ‘Star Wars’...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs rejects plea deal in sex trafficking trial
LOS ANGELES — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has rejected a plea deal in his upcoming trial on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. At a Thursday hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian asked Combs whether he rejected the plea deal from federal prosecutors that could have shortened his...
When did Disney villains stop being so villainous? New show suggests they may just be misunderstood
ORLANDO, Fla. — Cruella de Vil wanted to turn Dalmatian puppies into fur coats, Captain Hook tried to bomb Peter Pan and Maleficent issued a curse of early death for Aurora. But wait, maybe these Disney villains were just misunderstood? That’s the premise of a new musical show at Walt...
Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter known for ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ dies in a fire
Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song “I Kissed a Girl,” died in a house fire Thursday. She was 66. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, David Elkin, in an email Thursday afternoon. It was not immediately clear...
Tony Award nominations: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Death Becomes Her’ and ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ lead the way
NEW YORK — Three Broadway shows — “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” — each earned a leading 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as nominators spread out the joy and gave nods to George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Bob Odenkirk in their debuts. Twenty-nine shows...
TV Talk: Tina Fey, Steve Carell remake ‘Four Seasons;’ SNP adds ‘Views’Video
The 1981 film “The Four Seasons,” written and directed by and starring Alan Alda, gets re-envisioned as a relatable, ultimately winning eight-episode Netflix comedy starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo and Will Forte. Two episodes cover each season, beginning with spring, as six college friends, most in their 50s,...
Sheryl Crow says she was frightened by armed man on her property after she dumped her Tesla
In February, singer Sheryl Crow celebrated Valentine’s Day by dumping her Tesla in a video she posted to Instagram. Soon after, a man with a gun showed up on her Nashville property. But Crow told Variety in an interview published Wednesday she has no problem voicing her left-leaning beliefs in...
Movie Review: ‘Thunderbolts’ is Marvel, and Florence Pugh, in high gearVideo
As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide in “Thunderbolts.” But in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn’t a matter of interplanetary strife. “Thunderbolts” has been touted as the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in 21st century American movies:...
